Tuesday, December 06, 2011
[IWS] ERM: DATABASE on RESTRUCTURING in EUROPE & REPORT [21 November 2011]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
Public instruments to support restructuring in Europe - ERM Report 2011 [21 November 2011]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef1165.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2011/65/en/3/EF1165EN.pdf
[full-text, 108 pages]
Executive Summary
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/htmlfiles/ef11651.htm
DATABASE
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/supportinstruments/
Eurofound's ERM database on support instruments for restructuring provides information on about 400 measures in the Member States of the European Union and Norway. National governments, employers' organisations and trade unions are among the bodies providing support for companies that need to restructure and the affected employees. The support instruments are described in terms of their characteristics, involved actors, funding sources, strengths, weaknesses and outcomes. The aim is to inform governments, social partners and others involved about what kinds of support can be offered.
Author: Hurley John; Mandl, Irene
Summary:
Structural change is a general characteristic of economic development, driven by shifts in relative productivity and demand, technological or socioeconomic changes. To adapt to a changing economic environment, companies undergo restructuring to maintain or improve their competitiveness and, hence, sustainability. While restructuring is essential to the dynamism of the European economy, it can entail difficulties for employees. The ERM annual report 2011 looks at the whole range of instruments available in the EU to mitigate the negative effects that it may have for both companies and employees and introduces around 400 of them in an online database. The ERM annual report also presents an overview and analysis of restructuring activities in Europe as captured by the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM). An executive summary and a database are also available.
CONTENTS
Executive summary 1
1 — Introduction 5
Background and objectives 5
ERM database on support instruments for restructuring 6
2 — General characteristics of restructuring support instruments in Europe 11
Focus of restructuring support instruments 11
Involved actors 12
Funding 14
Adaptation to the recession 15
3 — Instruments to support the anticipation of change 17
Overview 17
Advice 18
Training 23
Provision of labour market information 26
Access to finance and attracting investors 28
Fostering innovation or internationalisation 30
Social dialogue and territorial coordination 32
4 — Instruments to support the management of restructuring 35
Overview 35
Training 36
Advice and matching 38
Remuneration subsidies 41
Working time flexibility 43
Access to finance 44
Social dialogue and territorial coordination 46
5 — Conclusion 49
General aspects 49
Anticipation of change 50
Management of restructuring 50
6 — EU labour markets: a hesitant recovery 53
Employment shifts by region 55
Employment shifts by sector 58
A model for analysing employment change 63
7 — Restructuring in the recovery: the European Restructuring Monitor 67
Overview of restructuring cases 67
Bibliography 77
Annexes
Annex 1 85
Annex 2 87
Annex 3: Key to sector codes (intermediate NACE rev 2) in Figure 13
(Bubble chart) 91
Annex 4: The European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) 93
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